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Mick Rooney is an editor, investigative journalist
and author. He is one of the
leading voices in self and independent publishing communities and a strong advocate for
change and innovation in the publishing industry.

He has published two books published aimed at authors navigating the
world of self-publishing: To Self-Publish
or Not to Self-Publish (Troubador Publishing, 2011) is an
in-depth look at self-publishing in the UK and Ireland, and Choosing
A Self-Publishing Service (Font Publications, 2014) is a guide to all
you need to know in order to choose the self-publishing pathway that's right
for you.

His career has spanned three decades, from working in various roles in the
entertainment industry, general retail, warehousing and logistics, to marketing
and promotion in music and publishing.

Mick Rooney was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1968. He has been writing
fiction for over thirty years and has published ten books. His first book, Arcadia,
was published in 1990. It is a poetic novella of the mind and was followed by
The Eternal, Hybrid, Thais, and a book of collected shorter
fiction in 1995, entitled Oceanic.

Academy was Mick Rooney’s first
full length novel. His second, Filigree & Shadow, was published in November
2008. His last novel, The Memory of
Trees, was published by Book Republic, an imprint of Maverick House
Publishing, in September, 2011 (due for reissue in 2015).